US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on May 19 for "Producing oil and gas" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,106, issued on May 19, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Producing oil and gas" was invented by Hasan A. Nourdeen (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ahmad F. Khamees (Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulrahman Albukhari (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining fluid production rates in a high gas-oil-ratio environment from a multilateral well that includes receiving pressure and flow rate data from the multilateral well at multiple choke valve settings. The multilateral well produces multiple fluids from a reservoir. The method includes determining a calibrated inflow performance ...